Games for Children's Parties

The games in this list are mainly for children from four to ten or twelve years of age. They are suitable both for indoors and the lawn. While most of them call for only a mild form of exercise, a few of the more lively running games are included. The so-called quiet games are not necessarily noiseless, but are distinguished from active games in which the players move around.

Active Games

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All-up Relay

Animal Blind Man's Buff

Animal Chase

Barley Break

Baste the Bear

Bird Catcher, The

Black and White

Blind Man's Buff

Blind Bell

Body Guard

Bunch of Ivy

Cat and Rat

Catch the Cane

Catch of Fish

Charley over the Water

Club Snatch

Crossing the Brook

Do This, Do That

Drop the Handkerchief

Dumb-bell Tag

Exchange

Farmer is Coming, The

Flowers and the Wind, The

Follow Chase

Follow the Leader

Fox and Geese

Fox and Squirrel

Garden Scamp

Going to Jerusalem

Good Morning

Guess Who

Gypsy, The

Have you seen my Sheep?

Hide and Seek

Hide the Thimble

High Windows

Hopping Relay Race

Hound and Rabbit

How Many Miles to Babylon?

Huckle, Buckle, Bean Stalk

Hunt the Slipper

I Spy

I say, "Stoop!"

Jack be Nimble

Jacob and Rachel

Japanese Tag

Kaleidoscope

Lady of the Land

Lame Fox and Chickens

Last Couple Out

Letting Out the Doves

Lost Child, The

Maze Tag

Menagerie

Midnight

Mother, may I go out to Play?

Mother, Mother, the Pot boils Over

My Lady's Toilet

Numbers Change

Observation

Odd Man's Cap

Old Buzzard

Old Woman from the Wood

Partner Tag

Pebble Chase

Pinch-o

Potato Shuttle Relay

Potato Spoon Race

Puss in the Circle

Puss in a Corner

Railroad Train

Ring Master

Sardines

Slap Catch

Slap Jack

Slipper Slap

Spin the Platter

Squirrel in Trees

Step

Still Pond, No More Moving

Stoop Tag

Sun Dial

Thimble Ring

Three Deep

Trades

Tree Party

Wee Bologna Man, The

What is my Thought Like?

Who goes round my Stone Wall?

Wood Tag

Quiet Games

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"B" Game, The

Beast, Bird, and Fish

Buzz

Cross Questions

Dumb Crambo

Find the Ring

Flower Match

Grass Blade

Hen Roost

Horns

Keep Moving

Leaf by Leaf

Literary Lore

London

Minister's Cat, The

Music Box

My Lady's Lap Dog

Naughts and Crosses

Penny Wise

Planting a Garden

Poor Pussy

Prince of Paris

Simon Says

Tip, Tap, Toe

Up, Jenkins!

What is my Thought Like?

Zoo, The

Singing Games

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Did you ever see a Lassie?

Draw a Bucket of Water

Duck Dance, The

Farmer in the Dell

Hunting

Itisket, Itasket

Kitty White

Leaves are Green

London Bridge

Looby Loo

Muffin Man

Mulberry Bush

Nuts in May

Oats, Peas, Beans

Round and Round the Village

Snail

Bean Bag Games

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Bag Pile

Bean Bag Board

Bean Bag Box

Bean Bag Circle Toss

Bean Bag Ring Throw

Target Toss

Teacher and Class

Zigzag Games

Ball Games

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Balloon Ball

Balloon Goal

Call Ball

Center Catch Ball

Circle Ball

Ring Call Ball

Round Ball

Zigzag Games

Games for Either Balls or Bean Bags

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All Run

Arch Ball

Call Ball

Center Catch Ball

Circle Ball

Club Bowls

Corner Spry

Dodgeball

Over and Under Relay

Overtake

Ring Call Ball

Round Ball

Zigzag Games